No, really the game is so much fun, that I want to share my impression.

First of all the bad stuff: It’s really basically just the same as the old ones.

A decent story well told but very limited interaction with NPCs apart from “Kill ‘em all”, a pure item hunt, no skill trees anymore and worst of it all a “must be online” even when you’re playing solo and naturally, its a pure time killer. You fire it up, you’re immediately into the action and grinding for xp and loot.

But that’s right where the fun starts, especially after beating it at normal.

On normal it really “just” plays like the old two or four if you count the expansions and despite the lost skill trees, the new “runes” which allow to customice your skills allow a decent variety in game play. It’s good.

But … if you start on nightmare, you actually start to use your characters skills together with your RL skills to go through the first act again. You start picking and choose the runes to modify your skills so they fit your style of gaming and depending on your surroundings you end up using these skills in different strategies to beat the hordes of demons and their followers. It’s still a click fest but now with strategy and tactics, it’s IMHO (and some ppl know how much I hate this phrase) the so called “fast paced action game” that a lot of game always wanted to be. It plays quick, you have to have skill and strategy in picking your skills/runes and you need a decent tactic to use ‘em well.

Damit it’s fun. – I’m so happy it’s not an MMO, since I can see me playing it a lot.

Even more funny, the “must be online” thing makes it quite social, even in single player mode, since it’s actually not that solo anymore. You see right away who of your battle.net friends is online, which lvl char they are playing and which mode and can join them right away, you also see achievements popping up from your friends while playing so it uses the “must be online” at least to make the game more fun. And the auction house gives a good way to get some good gear without the endless hours of grind to play the game and which allows you fine tuning your character build and let’s you focus on “getting good” at the game.

This story is a few months old, but it serves as a reminder of how the entire horrible thing was created and perpetuated. This was never about anything other than harassing and attacking people.

"A set of IRC logs released Saturday appear to show that a handful of 4chan users were ultimately behind #GamerGate, the supposedly grass-roots movement aimed at exposing ethical lapses in gaming journalism. The logs show a small group of users orchestrating a ‘hashtag campaign’ to perpetuate misogynistic attacks by wrapping them in a debate about ethics in gaming journalism."

Remember, if you’re on the same side as Adam Baldwin, you’re on the wrong side.